Christmas eve - I am very proud to announce that I've reached the maximum EQ level this year... I waited for the clock to strike 12 am... I didn't peek on any gift I received (unless requested by the giver that I open it ASAP)... thanks to everyone who remebered to give me presents this year.

and lastly... the original Ben of my life got married... enough said don't want more sighs.

Monday, December 10, 2007

December 8, 2007 - Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion and at the same time the happy union of my dear friend Penny and the lucky guy Marlon. I witnessed their love story and I know they're both happy to be together. Best Wishes Baby Penny and Congratulations Marlon... Papa Marlon, welcome to our big big family! Here are some pictures from the Saturday wedding celeb...

Thursday, November 22, 2007

...owe this site the Thailand stories and pictures that I promised, I think I’ll break the promise (again again). With all the rackets, wedding preps/ shower for Pen and Christmas hullabaloo that I’m attending to I don’t have the time anymore. So here are some photos, hopefully I’ll be very bored next year that I eventually decide to work on the pictures and stories of the past trips I had.

This is what I do most of the time when inside the hotel - I watch the Mondo (Chinese) MTV hehehe

Thursday, November 15, 2007

I was browsing through featured articles on the web earlier today when I came upon this romantic story about a guy riding a subway then fell in love instantly to a woman sitting across from him inside the train. He made this cutesy and detailed website to find the girl. He felt bad that he wasn't able to say anything or even manage to start a conversation with the girl and with that HE HAS TO FIND HER!!!

Search the web for "new york girl of my dreams" for more feedback on this great love story.

If you guys are thinking of watching Beowulf in cinemas you better opt for the IMAX experience. I watched it last night with Jo where a full length 3D animation was showcased. I love Angelina Jolie in this movie, although it is animated I still believe that it is Angie’s real body (as opposed to Ray Winstone’s bod in this flick hehehe – watch the movie first then search through yahoo or imdb on what Ray aka Beowulf looks like).

It is in a way dark and gory (why would it not be? Neil Gaiman wrote the screenplay) and Robert Zemeckis’ impressive creation will make you remember the Polar Express.

So take my word for it, if you want to watch it ready your P400 and watch it in IMAX, it is worth your money (in my case Joel’s money hehehe).

Monday, November 05, 2007

The last time I was there (2 years ago) I was on my own and was there for a conference. It was an office related trip that is why I wasn’t able to see the richness of its culture and sights. But this time I was able to see a part of Bangkok and was there with friends to enjoy. Stories and pictures will be posted soon.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

I hate rainy days. It’s so dramatic, so teary and wet. People’s movement and mind motions are all in slow motion. Life in itself is in slow motion when it’s raining. Time slows down – I don’t know if it’s the heavy air that drags the hands of clocks backwards but it definitely is really painfully dragging.

But not today, strange things happened. Its drizzling when I went down the road with my jeans folded up, I held on tightly to my umbrella and then the song played. This particularly day I feel all so bubbly and cheerful because I have a new rainy day song. For some unknown bizarre reason I love walking under the rain. I guess just for today.

I don’t like Ben Lee that much but I love him today for his song. If today is the last day of my existence, I don’t feel sad. It doesn’t matter if I don’t have someone who’ll love me like the world is ending but I know I have the love for people and the feeling is as strong as the end of the world.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Early today I was going through my usual chat thing with Marco which includes:1.) regular “musta” routine that would then lead to hallmark moments (miss you miss you too routine that could run for around 5 minutes).2.) love life inquiry (ssdd – the one still missing)3.) future marriage plans (far far billionth power future plans) – where we would eventually marry each other in our old age (ganyan kame mag-usap hehehe gaguhan)4.) current events (which was about Glorietta for today)5.) movies (wasn’t tackled this morning)6.) people we know (gossip segue)7.) my Ben (and Marco’s lack of a Bena)8.) BOOKS (current book we’re reading – yes ganito ka-boring)

My good mood today was brought about the chat I had with him this morning, we usually end our chats with book related matters, our real topic of discussion - the reason that prolonged our conversation (and friendship hehehe joke!). I still feel proud that it was through me that Marco became a reader (before) and now a convert – a book addict. He reads a lot now and that makes me truly proud. He’s one of my accomplishments – his love for books now is one of my shinning moments hehehe. I know it sounds really shallow but I am a proud and doting wing(wo)man when it comes to Marco’s reading habits. The book I gave him as a gift early on our friendship (his first bday that I got the chance to witness, we were just new friends then) was his first book (The Little Prince). Okay enough with history and going back to my good mood :D Marco gave me this book lover’s site. An amazing site that made me logged on for 6 straight hours today (my very first visit to the site). I feel guilty that my attention for work is divided due to the fact that I am busy pimping my page hehehe. I was busy reading comments, joining a book club and adding lists to my shelf and reading lists. It’s a nirvana for book enthusiasts like moi and Marco (who by the way have 40 books already in his shelf). I am so excited that I now want to go home, get my book inventory and add everything I own and books I have already read to my account.

The site I’m raving about? It’s Shelfari… the site for book worms, book critics and everyone who loves reading. Do join guys and add me up to your list of book friends.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Don't know how to react to the revelation that Dumbledore is gay. Not that this info made me less respect him, I still think very highly of him however it just complicate things for the young readers. I just hope this news don't confuse the youngsters. Oh well, life and it's colorful twists and turns.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

I attended AD Inc.’s (my friend Joel’s company) first year anniversary and formal launch party last night with Jenny. The event was held at Absinth Greenbelt 3 (yes sosyal si Lolo Joel) and was attended by the company’s families, friends, contractors, suppliers & valued clients (ginaya ko lang order of acknowledgement ni Jo). Too bad I wasn’t able to get a pic of Jo in his encyclopedia/ Electrolux salesman get up. And his speech was something – short -- painfully short -- in fact it wasn’t an address it was a shout out hehehe. But in fairness I am so proud of him, he’s talented and creative, focused, accomplished and passionate to his craft.More power and goodluck to Joel and the whole About Designs Inc. family! More projects, more blessings and more success to you all!

Here are pics of moi and Jenny while entertaining ourselves at the party hehehe (yep picture when no one is looking). We went home triumphant – we both won Marks & Spencer goodies in the raffle.

Food & drinks poured in and it was great seeing familiar (friends) & faces from the architecture and design industry (most of them friends through Joel hehehe).

Did we lose ourselves again?Do we take in what's been said?Do we take the time to beAll the things we said we'd beAnd we bury heads in sandBut my future's in my handsIt means nothingIt means nothing

You can find yourself a GodBelieve in which one you want'Cos they love you all the sameThey just go by different namesWhen we fly our flag todayAre you proud or just ashamed?It means nothingIt means nothing

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

I was in the mood for sappy and chaotic hospital life last night so I set the DVD to a season 3 marathon of Grey’s Anatomy. I came across this great song from Travis used on episode 13 (Six Days part 1) here’s the video courtesy of youtube:

If I told you a secretYou won't tell a soulWill you hold it and keep it aliveCause it's burning a holeAnd I can't get to sleepAnd I can't live alone in this lie

So look upTake it awayDon't look da-da-da- down the mountain

If the world isn't turningYour heart won't returnAnyone, anything, anyhow

So take me don't leave meTake me don't leave meBaby, love will come through it's just waiting for you

Well I stand at the crossroadsOf highroads and lowroadsAnd I got a feeling its right

If it's real what I'm feelingThere's no make believingThe sound of the wings of the flight of a dove

Take it awayDon't look da-da-da down the mountainIf the world isn't turningYour heart won't return anyone anything anyhow...

So take me don't leave meTake me don't leave meBaby, love will come through it's just waiting for you

So take me don't leave meTake me don't leave meBaby, love will come through it's just waiting for you

Love will come throughLove will come throughLove will come through

So while I am in my Grey’s Anatomy good mood I am posting here some of the marvelous lines from season 3 that made me ponder and think about my own life a little (alright it’s a lie, I rationalized on every line big time).

(Meredith) At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that it’s happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

(Meredith) Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

(Meredith) Change, we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here’s the truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes, change is ... everything.

(Preston) Cristina, I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. I could promise to be there, in sickness and in health. I could say till death do us part. But I won't. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. I do not stand here on my wedding day optimistic or full of hope. I am not optimistic. I am not hopeful. I am sure. I am steady. I'm a heart man. Take 'em apart, put 'em back together, hold them in my hands. I am a heart man. So this, I am sure. You are my partner. My lover. My very best friend. My heart. My heart beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands, I promise you... me.

(Izzie) I am an optimist. I am a fool. I am not sure. Because I'm your best friend, because I love you, if what you want is to be with Callie then I will do everything in my power to support you and help you make your marriage work. But because I'm your best friend, because I love you, I also have to say... that I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you. I can't promise a future, I can't promise perfection, because we're us, I'm me and you're you. No one knows what will happen. But in my heart, I am sure. I'm in love with you George. And I hope you're in love with me too.

CRISTINA: "What am I supposed to say? 'I swear to love and cherish you every moment of everyday of my life?' I mean, that's not real. I mean, that's not how it works, right?"

CALLIE: "It does, at first, but then it..."

MEREDITH: "It passes."

IZZIE: "No it doesn't. You guys are just used to it, that's all. You already have it, you have that thing everybody else wants. You can take it for granted, but let me tell you, if you didn't - if you couldn't be with the person that you love, I guarantee that hearing him promise you, love you and honor you and cherish you, no matter what, it would be pretty much all you could think about."

CRISTINA: "Wait, can you say that again? Just slowly."

MEREDITH: "You're talking about Denny, right?

IZZIE: "Right."

(Meredith) What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should've healed years ago and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again.

(Meredith) We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still, the expected is just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives

(George) Everytime I look at you... I feel better. It shocks me. It knocks my wind out, but it's true. I don't have to have sex with you, I'd be happy just look at you from across the room. Even that, anything, any piece of you. And, hopefully, all of you... that'd be the best thing. Because I love you…

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

I’ve been very lazy lately especially when this blog site is concerned. Must be because I’m tied up with a lot of work, I catch up with friends a lot lately and must be because I read too much & watch DVDs heavily that is why my work in this site is not that productive (define productive in such blog sites? entries, dahlin… entries). I don’t have the heart to abandon this site yet. I still feel that one day someday this will be alive & kicking with some occasional bouncing up & down once again. I thought about making this site a photoblog – let the photos speak for themselves. That way I don’t have to write descriptions & stories anymore but I can’t do that..., I talk – a lot. So this site being a silent sanctuary will not gonna happen, ever.

I am now again on my morbidity (is there such a word?) mode. Last year I buried my nose on The Bell Jar, Prozac Nation and The Virgin Suicides. This year I’m into Ramones, Edie Sedgwick, Jim Morrison and Ian Curtis – dead Rockstars & a belle. I have again reached the saturation point of my existence for this year. I worry too much about the new season of Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. I’m panicking over my insufficient time spent on reading. I worry over Rory Gilmore and why she took a year off Yale on Season 6. I feel bad over my inadequate knowledge of Andy Warhol. I am bothered by a lot of unimportant things. I am again running away from sanity.

By the time I get better I’ll post a great entry. Until then, I’ll just be here posting garbage.

Friday, September 28, 2007

As promised, here's a clearer Fall Out Boy video (song is I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got is this Stupid Song Written) from their Friends or Enemies Manila Tour (Sept 21, 2007, Araneta Coliseum).